Kansas Statutes 12-16,129. Accident response service fee prohibited
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-16,129
- city: means a city located within Crawford county. See Kansas Statutes 12-16,116
- Municipality: means any city, county or other political or taxing subdivision of the state. See Kansas Statutes 12-1677d
- Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, joint venture or other association of persons;
(b) "Hotel, motel or tourist court" means any structure or building which contains rooms furnished for the purposes of providing lodging, which may or may not also provide meals, entertainment or various other personal services to transient guests, and which is kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public as a place where sleeping accommodations are sought for pay or compensation by transient or permanent guests and having more than two bedrooms furnished for the accommodation of such guests;
(c) "Transient guest" means a person who occupies a room in a hotel, motel or tourist court for not more than 28 consecutive days;
(d) "Business" means any person engaged in the business of renting, leasing or letting living quarters, sleeping accommodations, rooms or a part thereof in connection with any motel, hotel or tourist court;
(e) "Convention and tourism promotion" means: (1) Activities to attract visitors into the community through marketing efforts, including advertising, directed to at least one of the five basic convention and tourism market segments consisting of group tours, pleasure travelers, association meetings and conventions, trade shows and corporate meetings and travel; and (2) support of those activities and organizations which encourage increased lodging facility occupancy; and
(f) "Accommodations broker" means any business which maintains an inventory of two or more rooms in one or more locations which are offered for pay to a person or persons for not more than 28 consecutive days. See Kansas Statutes 12-1692
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Municipality” means a city, county, township, fire district or any other political and taxing subdivisions in this state.
(2) “Accident response service fee” means any fee imposed on the driver or owner of a motor vehicle, an insurance company or any other person, for the response to or investigation of a motor vehicle accident, but does not include the usual and customary charges for providing ambulance and emergency services when immediate action is required to save life, prevent suffering or disability or to protect and save property.
(3) “Emergency services” includes the actual costs of police, fire, technical rescue situations, including, but not limited to, vehicle extrication, trench rescue, high-angle rescue, confined-space rescue and swift-water rescue and emergency medical service personnel and equipment deemed appropriate by the municipality to address reasonably anticipated needs including, but not limited to, unknown number of injured persons and possible environmental and health threats involving hazardous material.
(b) No municipality shall charge an accident response service fee to persons receiving emergency services inside or outside of such municipality, except for actual costs of providing such emergency services in response to a motor vehicle accident.